Word: explained
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...NEWS SPECIAL (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Eric Sevareid attempts to explain the Franco-American love-hate relationship from Benjamin Franklin's time to, as he calls it, "the present irritation." "Our Friends, the French" will be represented by four Frenchmen of strong opinions: Jean-Claude Servan-Schreiber, general director of Les Echos, a pro-De Gaulle paper; his cousin Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, general director of L'Express, an anti-De Gaulle magazine; Pierre Gallois, retired air force general and chief exponent of France's independent nuclear striking force; and Jacques Rueff, gold-standard devotee...
...Candidate Milton Shapp, 54, spent more money than any other candidate in the state's history. A self-made electronics millionaire, Shapp had lavishly ladled out $1.4 million by election day - all but $5,111 from his own pocket. Last week Shapp went before a Harrisburg court to explain in public audit just where some of the money went...
...plot, the film boasts a CORE sampling of injustices that supposedly explain the color-conscious hero's heavy drinking and bad temper. Seldom is there any doubt that what makes Adam run is Sammy. Carpentered into the story line are all the predictable solo turns-a crying jag, a tender love episode, a scene in which he wields a broken bottle to make his agent grovel, and a reprise in which Davis crawls across a restaurant floor to shine Lawford's shoes. There is a semifinal glimpse of the doomed genius staggering through city streets, climaxed...
...South Vietnam," said one pacifist to a hostile spectator, "and if a majority of the people said they wanted the Communists and wanted to distribute land to everyone, would we have a right to say NO?" Without hesitation, the boy responded "Yes, we could," and then proceeded to explain why. Repeatedly, the argument came to "if we don't fight the Commies in South Vietnam, we'll be fighting them in Hawaii or California...
...explain this overreaction is difficult. The simplest, if not the most complete, explanation is that the marchers represent a real or imagined threat much larger than their own numbers. There is little discrimination between types of protest; this march is like all the others, and represents all others. Or, perhaps one must simply classify the overreaction as "irrational." But whatever the causes, one thing about the overreaction is certain: it is predictable. CNVA understands this--and the question one has to ask is why they keep coming back for more and more...